The week in Australian federal politics was headlined by the triumphant return of ‘Bad’ Malcolm Turnbull.
Australians had become accustomed to the pinkie-extended punctilios of Pleasant Malcolm and it has become clear they don’t much care for them.
So with nothing left to lose, Bad Malcolm got a run and delivered a withering character assessment of the Opposition leader. It was a terrific spray, no doubt, so full of harsh burns Bill Shorten may well still be plastering himself in aloe vera.
Bad Malcolm left his best line to last: “This sycophant, blowing hard in the House of Representatives, sucking hard in the living rooms of Melbourne — what a hypocrite.”
Understandably, lovers of the pugilistic arts weren’t about to get too excited. Should the People’s House ever become the House of Stoush with ‘Truffles’ Turnbull and ‘Wee Billy’ Shorten coming to blows, it would make last week’s Danny Green-Anthony Mundine fight look like the Thriller in Manilla.
Full column here.
Firmly ensconced under the air conditioner being a perfect slob and just put tv on ready for India v Bangladesh, it’s not going to be pretty.
Bangladesh trail by 646
They’ll smash their way out of it Tracy 😉
You’re a bloody sook Tracy. I went out and played golf, to stay off the air con electricity draw. Fact is, it wasn’t that bad today in Sydney, well on the coast at least. It might seem extreme, but we’re just having a summer. I do however miss the Southerly Busters, where have they gone?
They’re down here here Lou!!
North facing house with flat metal roof, low side of street so complete waste of time when a change of wind direction comes, goes straight over the top of us.
On the other hand the house is beautifully warm on a sunny winters day.
sounds perfect for huge solar array. Add batteries all set.
Until the Li Ion battery catches fire and burns your house down
Jack the Insider.
The word pugilistic you mention above, I would feel pretty safe giving both Malcolm and Bill a mouth full anytime ,anyplace , both being fake ,all noise ,little action and solutions.
The days are gone of asperations of serving the public while concerned more serving their own futures later on.
Where is that buffoon from the north Clive Palmer these days creating his own invasion that was going to clean up the politics being PM. Goes to show the state of our abnormal politics has deteriated into disorderly conduct now coming before pragmatic politics. This crazy interigation personality stuff ,just gets boring breaking into farcical vilification of personalities day after day. Someone mentioned these long hrs they do away from families . I can name company drivers and self-employed truck drivers away months at a time and 100 hrs a week plus working who get less then $ 3000 a week slugging their guts out in the heat and long distances , no such retirement bonanzas for them like these clowns get in parliament sucking on the tax payers tit with rewards of massive super payouts.
Exactly Rodent. And these politicians earn far more money and have better benefits than truck drivers, FIFOs etc. I don’t feel the slightest bit sorry for politicians who claim hardship because they are away from their families. They can claim living away from home allowance, even if the place they live in are owned by their spouses a la Hockey and Turnbull before he became PM.
Soon maybe we can get a decent young politician to take the reins of the country with the aim of keeping our young people engaged like Justin Trudeau in Canada, but I’m certainly not holding my breath.
Bella, keep at it……you make me proud.
rodent why were you against safe rates for truck drivers nationally then? Which they have had in NSW for decades. Too many killed again in the last 12 months. The owner drivers get no where near $3K a week. ATO records show most earn less than $30K a year. Short memory must have…….
http://saferates.org.au/2016-another-deadly-year-transport-workers-says-twu/
A better question is, if the Safe Rates plan is good for the owner drivers then why didn’t they welcome it with open arms? They rejected it out of hand. $30k per year? To own and keep a truck on the road? Surely you jest, and did you notice the terminology the TWU written article used in their quoting of industry statistics? The transport industry. That covers a whole lot of ground besides truck drivers. You really blindly believe a publication put out by a union without questioning the agenda? Baaa……
If there is an interstate trucky earning less than 30k a year I’ll eat my boot! You always have to bullshit!
Start chewin.
Moi, “won over, easily impressed”?? Not so my dear HB, not so!!
I closely read all of your utterances each morning before going for a gargle and then cleaning my teeth, my dear chap.
Awwwwwwww shucks Carl you have made your Uncle Henry blush, something I haven’t done since ’72 when I went to a Nudist Colony, first and last time! Cheers good buddy keep up your Right Wing posts just love em. Say have you signed up with poor old Cory yet, I am thinking of doing so just to keep him company.
Dismayed
Feb 10 5.00pm
says: “Still peddling lies CotC.”
I will ignore your vain, usual stock-in-trade attempt at the tail-end of the last topic to portray me as a liar following from a short comment I posted about Professor Tim Flannery’s predictions on water supply.
You are apparently unaware of a number of Professor Flannery’s reported warnings between 2007 and 2009.
In 2007 for instance he is quoted: “In Adelaide, Sydney and Brisbane water supplies are so low they need desalinated water urgently, possibly in 18 months”. “So, even the rain that falls isn’t actually going to fill our dams and river systems.” And again in 2008: “The water problem is so severe in Adelaide that it may run out of water by early 2009.”
You are also apparently unaware, Dismayed that in 2009 Professor Flannery had a solution to Adelaide’s, now actual, power problems. He is quoted: “There are hot rocks in South Australia that potentially have enough embedded energy in them to run Australia’s economy for the best part of a century.” On the strength of that advice the Rudd government awarded $90 million to Geodynamics, a company Flannery was closely connected to. The long and the short of it was that 5 wells were sunk at Innamincka, some collapsed and were filled with cement and ironically, the whole project was reportedly hit by the kind of floods Flannery didn’t predict.
Some may ask: What is the latest business future for Flannery’s Geodynamics?
Many may answer: Erk!
You may care to reconsider your initial personal slur Dismayed, however I will completely understand if you choose not to mate.
CotC You have just continued to lie about what Flannery said. I previously posted one of his FULL comments. You are deliberately picking lines out and trying to mislead. Flannery was an investor so what? The company returned $30 million to the Renewable Energy Agency. Oh the hot rock project produced a working power plant. Wells are Plugged and abandoned using cement routinely. I know a little more about those wells than you, the rig that drilled them and Origin coming in and also investing in the project. Adelaide and SA was in drought conditions for years during the 2000’s I live here. Oh “Yet you know what – only a tiny fraction of this government money ever actually made it into the hands of the geothermal companies”
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/business-spectator/geodynamics-unfulfilled-promise/news-story/e44ea15fcd38a615577eb738645112aa
they are getting more funding http://www.news.com.au/finance/business/breaking-news/geodynamics-has-power-funding/news-story/da68baa3b72030837236e035bb77eb7f
Geodynamics now called RenuEnergy. Guess what they’re into.
I want my 90 big one’s back!
Just more tedious obfuscation Carl. You just refuse to man up and face the reality of AGW. Note how much heat over and above pre industrial levels is accumulating in our oceans.
https://www.skepticalscience.com/1934-hottest-year-on-record.htm
I used that link because it demonstrates the pathetic efforts of deniers to shift the focus and responsibility from the horrific reality facing our children and grandchildren.
Now, every year s getting hotter, and will continue to do so, it might be time old fellow to start considering your personal integrity don’t you think?
Theres nothing wrong with thermal energy, the reason it fails is because it is not price competitive. That’s what it’s all about isn’t, it eh old chap? If it’s going to cost me an extra dollar the world and all who live here can go to hell on earth. I’m old, I’m alright Jack?
JB, the Geodynamics project was a success, but due to the isolated location, Government, I believe it was the Federal Gov, would not put up the money for the infrastructure, especially the expensive high voltage power lines system required. This was what I was told by two senior guys who were involved. If the power lines had been built, it would have been pedal to the metal. Now they are dismantling most of the project equipment including the power generators. Sad ending to a worthwhile project. Unocal (now Chevron) have been doing it in Indonesia since the mid nineties with great success.
Geodynamics are now called RenuEnergy, all drilling activities have ceased and equipment sold. They are now in the shearing shed sheep shit business, going to try and produce methane at a commercial rate.
There is sufficient evidence provided here that the citizens are getting a slightly better standard governance than they deserve.
Pssssssssst Mr Baptiste isn’t it hot today, maybe a sign of Global Warming dear chap. Cheers.
Time to go back to only land owners, churchmen and blue-bloods being allowed to sit in parliament and voting only allowed for same.
It was giving the riff-raff and sheilas a say that started the slide.
Too right TBLS…….
Yep probably! deplorables just haven’t a clue about anything
Penny and Yvonne – I’m off the grog just now. Have to keep myself entertained somehow . . .
Figured that TBLS, it’s that time of year.
Yvonne- you just don’t get it do you. The “deplorables” you mention are the same people TBLS is being sarcastic about. Better go back to trying to convince yourself.
OH for Chrissakes Dismayed. Get a life – or at least find a sense of humour from some dark crevice of your mind. You don’t get it do you? Of course I know TBLS is being sarcastic. I enjoyed his remark – yes, ENJOYED ………….ROTFLMAO …………………………….
TBLS, trust you enjoyed that too . A real corker from the happy chappy ……….
Interesting programme on RN his morning -on the topic of Brexit. Interviewing Craig Oliver, author of the book Unleashing Demons, which is a good read apparently. He was political advisor to Cameron.
One of the points that was made is that the reason the Exit vote got up was that the younger set, who wanted to remain in the EU, did not bother to vote. If they had, the result would have been to stay.
And yet these same people were the ones who took to the streets to protest after the event. Same thing happened with the US election.
He makes the point that the younger set, whose future depends on it, are not bothering to engage in politics. Instead they protest and do not vote.
Which of course is producing the world that they protest about. Interesting.
Remember the riot in Portland the day after the election?
“Out of 108 protesters arrested in Portland following last week’s election, only 31 voted, according to voter logs released by the Multnomah County Elections Division.”
mmmmm. genxy n millennial types are the majority…but old farts run the show?
temporary hopefully
Well inevitably, smoke. Let’s hope they start to get more involved before then – the Gen xyer’s etc.
Its much more than just “interesting” Yvonne, it’s downright disturbing.
I blame it all on a combination of the easy access and over-use of cell phones, the excessive consumption of over-processed foods (ie those with a high content of sugar, salt and fat/oil) and Hollywood.
Combine that with the immediate impulse of a large demographic of the “younger set” to congregate in groups and clutter up the streets and thoroughfares of the world’s western nations wearing silly headwear while hoisting aloft pieces of cardboard of all shapes and sizes on sticks, displaying nonsensical messages about events that have no real impact on their, as yet, undeveloped infantile lives, and we are faced with a very uncertain future if and when they are eventually called upon to run the joint.
I suppose some, if not many, of us may take comfort that our now precarious place on the twig will have expired.
Baby Boomers wanted nothing, Gen X wanted for nothing, Gen Y wanted everything, the Millenials have everything. Why vote? There is no greater interest than disinterest.
Fair comment Lou. Sad but true.
Sometimes I find the material world sickening – quite terrifying at times
The dinosaurs, as some here like to call them, fought through a war, endured terrible hardship, (especially WW1) but came out of it and knuckled down to start again. And they did.
At the risk of sounding like a dinosaur (go away JB) it sometimes seems to me that the millennials are happy to blame the dinosaurs for their misfortune. And that of the planet. They want instant gratification. It’s all too easy.
Turn back time and put them in the days of the industrial revolution – wouldn’t they have done the same as was done then?
Get involved, don’t hurl abuse at the dinosaurs. Maybe that’s a better plan?
Well let’s hope that one or two of them are nuclear scientists, CotC. – because all the wind turbines and solar panels in the world are not going to help at this stage of the game. Two minutes to midnight and all that..
………………….And they learn how to tick a box on a piece of paper at a ballot box.
Or to put it another way: “Get off my lawn!”
I agree it’s a worry that the young don’t vote, although I suspect that’s long been so. But I think it’s a bit harsh to blame the young for not stopping the old from FTW. It’s the old who are actively doing it.
If the latter had taken the trouble to read the labels on the conservative parties they have voted for over the last few decades, they would have realised those parties came bundled with a not-so-conservative neoliberal agenda to dismantle the secure employment, housing, public infrastructure and other social protections they have enjoyed for most of their lives, which the young will never have. Instead of blaming foreigners for the loss of these things, they should look in the mirror.
Here’s a bit of historical data on US youth voting patterns since the 1970s:
https://ssir.org/articles/entry/do_we_actually_want_higher_youth_voter_turnout
TL;DR: Youth vote has always been low, it dipped lower around 2000 and is actually slightly higher now.
BTW, the voting percentage of arrested Portland protesters suggested by Dwight’s comment is about normal for voters under 30 without college education, according to the article.
“Canberra’s Punch and Judy show goes on, while the rest of the country couldn’t care less”. So writes the SMH’s Peter Hartcher , Mr Insider, in reference to the waffle Turnbull went on with this week in Parliament. I would suggest Australia has long turned off to listening to anything Turnbull says. He achieved nothing last week in Parliament and that appears to be the norm. I note Laurie Oakes suggesting he is basically a politically dead man walking. However do note a couple of gullible young chaps impressed by Turnbull’s hot air this week, sad really. The Newspolls toll for thee Turnbull.
http://tinyurl.com/z7so6r9
Well one thing it did perhaps achieve. HB, is that it drew attention to Shorten’s ruthless social climbing – which many may not perhaps have been aware of. His driving ambition has always been to be one of the hoy polloy and live at Kirribilli. Turnbull was deadly accurate in that.
Turnbull made his own fortune and is living off it. Shorten makes his off other people’s money. His choice of wives is interesting too.
Shorten bloody hopeless Yvonne, he never rates well in the Newspoll but Labor rates well over the Libs. New leaders all round I say.
Now now our Sth African belle. Keep the claws in…..
You know what he’s going to do with that.
Razor
It was me that ‘did something with that’ Razor. Don’t quite know what his “choice of wives” has to do with anything.
Ever see a leader without ambition Yvonne?
No. That’s why they’re leaders.
But when you’re in the glasshouse it’s unwise to throw stones!
I think that’s a distinction without a difference, Yvonne. Turnbull made his money through financial speculation. In other words, off other people’s money.
IMO the term “social climbing” is a relic of the British class system, to describe the offence of trying to move beyond one’s ordained station. Nowadays we call it “mobility” or “aspiration”, and it’s a good thing. Turnbull’s use of the former term was poorly judged, given who he is.
my understanding is that turnbull inherited a little property, made good money as a journalist while studying law, then made money as a journalist and lawyer, married well and then followed this by starting an investment bank, getting bought out by goldmans and topped it off by picking more winners than losers in the tech boom, as well as being an astute property buyer in a rising market in sydney.
a good deal of sweat and skill and a fair degree of good fortune combined with some strategic sense and an ability to see a good opportunity and take it rather than making money off other people’s money.
he was my local member, but i never voted for him. wrong party for starters and then politics always seemed to be the thing that suited him least.
Jack, not to mention RISK, which JOH conveniently ignores.
The only risks Shorten has been exposed to is being found out in the public arena.
Inheriting property … investment banking … marrying well (!) … picking dotcom winners … trading in existing real estate…. nope, I’m sticking to my original assessment.
Exactly, MtK
john, if you think starting a merchant bank is easy, you ought to stop whingeing and have a lash at it yourself.
I think Bill would prefer to be upper crust Yvonne.
Don’t know that it’s necessary to bring his wife into the argument. Bill Shorten’s wife is delightful. As is Lucy Turnbull and just quietly her background definitely didn’t do Malcolm’s career any harm…..
Also it’s quite well known that behind closed doors Malcolm and Bill get on reasonably well as do their wives.
Like Julia’s misogyny speech, which incidentally went viral globally, Malcolm’s tirade will not help him in the polls, but did at last show that he has some grit. If only it would last..
Hey Penny I don’t think anyone said anything nasty about the wives?
Never met either of them but I’m sure they’re lovely. They’d have to be, putting up with those two
It’s the husbands that worry most here I’d say!
His choice of wives ??
Well Chloe was his PA. His first wife was pretty pissed off apparently. The divorce was messy. One never knows what goes on behind closed doors in a marriage. But it was all rather awkward. The timing too. I’ll leave it at that
What would Bill’s first wife say about Chloe? The timings a bit awkward.
Interesting comment in today’s Oz that Koutsantonis, SA Treasurer, claims he was ‘not told ” that SA could run into a brick wall when demand exceeded power supply and would be reliant on inter-connectors.
This was a report produced by his own department 8 months ago! Holy cow……what is happening down there?
Want the power story? OK
Blame game from Turnbull of course on electricity blackouts. That is all he can do to save his leadership as he is a policy vacuum..
Power was available in South Australia but the Market/Energy Operator, answerable to the
Liberal Federal Government, did not power up the gas fired generator at Pelican Point. Actually the same thing would have happened in NSW. The state of NSW was saved by two things on Friday:-
1. Renewables
2. A feed from the Queensland grid.
Of course you will hear nothing about this from the Looters.
The Liberals sold off the power in South Australia like they sell off everything remember so
this is not the present state government’s call. It takes 6hrs to power the backup generator at Pelican Point and that is why there was a delay.
This is nothing to do with renewables. That is the spin Turnbull is applying. It was a market operator supply failure. The market operator is the one that determines the supply of electricity. Not the South Australian government.
Malcolm wants to build ‘clean’ coal fired power station
1. They cost hundreds of millions
2. He/the govt wants investors to pay but they are not interested because they
know the best investment for the long term will be in renewable energy. Cheaper and less maintenance.
That said I am not totally against coal. It will be around for a loooooong time but we must engage with several sources of energy.
Bassy, you’re a bit late. Dismayed attempted to peddle that Pelican Point story yonks ago. “Pelican” being the operative and appropriate word in this instance.
but if major lumps of coal are contacted for export?? is there domestic reservation?
Windfarms and solar are no longer an option Bassy. Nuclear power has to happen.
The SA government should have had a Plan B in place. They have weather forecasts, they have a telephone. They presumably know how much power is going to be required when temps hit 40 deg and everyone turns on their AC. A call should have been made 24 hrs prior to the market operator that things may go pear-shaped and the generator should be turned on pronto.
I do not know the sequence of events – maybe they did make the call in plenty of time.
But cooperation, planning and efficiency just doesn’ t seem to happen in SA. You know what they say – ”when there’s a crash it’s usually user error”
Why didn’t they get the feed from Victoria?
Anyway forgive my naivety – a better word than ”ignorance” don’t you think? 🙂
Nuclear power is more expensive than any other option and would take over a decade to build after all the planning and engineering etc . Not happening. The SA Government does NOT run the Market the AEMO runs the market. They decide what and when things are powered up. You refuse to accept facts because you want to make a political point. That is not naïve it is wilful ignorance. The SA liberals sold of the SA power networks last time they were in government. It costs the SA government close to $2 billion a year in lost revenues every year since. Too try and “buy” it back or undo the 99 year lease would be too expensive now. Wind farms and Solar are the least expensive options now. Gas fired generation is available but was not utilised by the AEMO. Turnbull’s new climate advisor come direct from the Minerals council that is where the lump of coal came from. You choose ignorance for the sake of your political position.
Yes I am a great fan of nuclear and YES it IS expensive but far less expensive than fighting America’s wars for 15years where we get SFall return for our hard-earned!
Oh go away Dismayed.
Can’t argue with that Bassy. Nuclear has to happen – God knows where the money comes from. These things take time too – hopefully less than two minutes – before we turn into pumpkins!
If the whole country had coal fired power stations, and hydro linked into the grid and didnt subsidise renewables then more people would be employed and electricity would be cheaper. But we decided to go with the crowd didn’t we!
WE HAVE MASSIVE AMOUNTS OF CHEAP ELECTRICITY IN COAL!
WE COULD RUN JUST AS DIRTY AS WE LIKE! AND STILL WE WOULD CONTRIBUTE NOTHING TO GLOBAL WARMING!
Australias stance is like Eskimos saying they won’t export snow because somebody might get frostbite.
Wake up Australia why would we join a worldwide agreement that makes sure our kids are unemployed!
razor still peddling false information. Every piece of data and research proves coal is MORE EXPENSIVE. Pathological dishonesty is not in the National interest.
What about the billions in subsidies we give to the miners 85% foreign owned whose profits in the main go o/seas and who employ only a handful of people?
Yeah…Frydenberg freak show….
Dismal
All those comments and furious linking to websites no one even opened in the last blog. So what you are saying is the RBA which runs the economy in this country are stupid and dumb and you are so brilliant on economic matters the sun shines from every orifice you have. You link to god knows what trashy websites to back your crack brained theories and disparage opinions that may just perhaps, know exactly what they are talking about.
So how come you are leading a lonely life cleaning toilets on a rusty MODU and not running an investment bank earning billions a year if you have an Einsteinian intellect? Perhaps Mr dismal one, the reason is that you are the only one in the world that considers yourself possessing that intellect.
Philip Lowe the RBA Chairman who made that statement earns a million a year. How much do you earn? 150K?
Gainsay is the method of the idiot.
Perhaps if you did open some of those links you wouldn’t be such a brilliant poster child for Kruger-Dunning.
But! One assumes you infer that you are qualified to judge Dismayed’s intellect? That is extremely funny.
Of course a Chairman of the RBA or The Fed could never get it wrong, accidentally or otherwise?
Wheres the starting point in your opinion little Mr Mealy Mouth for a permissible opinion or one that one get you wound up like a deranged harpie? Would a million a year do, do you think?
NASA have just announced flights by civilians around the moon. So according to you JB people are applying g to be fried?
While it is possible that shielding may be sufficiently developed in years to come, I wouldn’t bet on it happening any time soon. Doing a loop around the moon in a suitably shielded craft should be technically possible but extremely risky now but that is a very different matter to landing humans on the moon.
You might like to peruse the link and wonder , as I do, why they don’t just drag out the 69′ tech and hardware and actually land those tourists on the moon? Should be a piece of cake shouldn’t it?
Not a single life lost on a mission back then was there? Surely they picked up a bit of data on the van Allen belts? I mean they flew through them in craft with a skin about as thick as Alfoil?
Funnily enough, when the Apollo programne was just starting to look like a huge scam and going nowhere a spokesman for NASA addressed a press conference and announced the go ahead with an absolute promise that no lives would be lost? He had a big on his face too! Mind you the programne was abruptly cancelled about hallway through.
Anyhow, believe what you want to Razor, there’s no law against being a gullible goose, but have a go at me on that bullsh*t and I’ll do you like a dinner. Some of us grew up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlXG0REiVzE
I don’t agree he is conceding anything but he seems unaware of history.
Moi read dismal links?
You have to be off your trolley to suggest that JB
robin that is why you are wrong all the time because you wont read and digest facts.
The problem with your facts dismal is they were dreamed up by a lunatic on LSD
Fair enough Robin, but you did just link to a website called “stopthesethings.com” as a source of reliable information on wind turbines.
YES lefties on this blog link to loonie news to bolster their positions. But they did not resort to bullshit on that site to state their positions. Just pure facts.
True! But I actually said “if” you opened some of those links, which as we both know is ridiculous because you are afraid to. Because you might learn something you don’t want to know, which is also ridiculous because you wouldn’t understand a word of it.
I have taken the liberty of nominating you for “Kruger Dunning Centrefold of the Year 2017.”
The prize is $A100K. in three dollar bills.
Never doubt Eddie Robin. His knowledge is only bounded by the narrowness of his own mind.
razor. you prove the mind is like a parachute if it is not open it does not work.
Robin, Ok you have tried to abuse me and I am sure if I respond in kind you and the rest of your cons will claim to be victims. My income is no business of yours. Does a persons income equate to their intelligence? You may have even worked under me on a construction project or 2 when you were a kitchen hand. You prove that you are unable to review data and research presented, you choose wilful ignorance over facts.
DISMAL there you go again. Your history of abuse against anyone who had the temerity to disagree with you, started the day when you began your dribbling on this blog. Many fine people stopped responding on this blog because of your abuse. I suspect many more will go if you continue. I will respond to your abuse in kind whenever I feel like it
robin you really are a sad case. I think your circulation issues are effecting what is left of your grey matter. sad mad old girl. .
U never know Dismal could be Dill Shorten
He is not smart enough Bassy
dill shorton was smart enough to know he was never going to get rich by working for a living so he married money. Twice in fact
That’s a curly one, Bassy. I’d say BS by a nose.
B’man my “policy agenda” would be front and centre figuratively and materially. Here is just a taste of some of my preferred measures “address the still generous Super concession, the market distorting Negative Gearing and Capital gains tax concessions, lower personal income tax rates along with broadening the GST to include Education and Health Services and others and remove Health Insurance rebate or more tightly means test and put that money directly in Public Health system, The Welfare churn has to be addressed. Anyone earning up to $100K should receive only very minimal Child care subsidy all other Howard/Costello welfare churn would be removed and means tested for those below $80K. The tax free status of Religious groups would also be removed freeing up $Billions. By raising the tax free threshold to $25K and reducing all other personal income tax rates the Nation economy will improve. Tax free up to $25K. 15% up to $50K, 20% to $100K, 25% to $150K, 30% to $200K. 35% to $300K. Medicare levy starting at 1% going to 5% at the top. ” The energy policy would contain an ETS and a planned, staged close down of coal fired plants as they play out their life cycle, so that is 30 plus years, plenty of time to move to more gas then renewables and storage options and newer technology. Infrastructure projects would be based on productivity measures, environmental measures and societal benefits not marginal seats as we see now with over 90% of rural infrastructure taking place in coalition held seats. Education would be closer to Gonski’s original needs based plan. I would also implement my Civil Service plan to train people to give real opportunities to unemployed of gaining useable skills and knowledge, speaking of, you would have the option of being in study/training, volunteering or the civil service or you would receive a reduced living wage if you were not doing one of those. The Living wage would be set at around 65% of average earnings. Just a taste.
Holy cow – I take it you have done the sums on all of this – and the forward estimates? How many people did you have to employ to reach these conclusions – and be sure they were viable? Do publish sometime, won’t you…………………… fascinating
Yvonne I have no doubt it is all too much for you to understand. This has been posted previously. George MegaG in response to it said with the above the GST to go to 5% and still be revenue positive for the government. But as I said before for people like you razor, robin and others leaving the GST at 10% is the best option. Try the sums yourself or get a young person to help you.
Yes some very good stuff in here. Well stated. And you still thin k we should be spending $300billion on Defence over the next few years as stated in the Oz a few weeks back? Everywhere I read Defence is one of the most wasteful departments that is a scared cow and cannot be touched. Cut everywhing else though.
Defence spending is tricky. I think you are right there is more than requried. I do think an Island Nation should be building it own naval vessels and the US connection makes it more imperative to have a solid defence force. but I am sure there is room for more efficient investment in defence
Oh apologies. You presented it as your preferences. I see you now say it was a cut and paste of someone else’s work. That figures.
No it is my work. MegaG simply advised it would work. Some of us have been with JTI and previously Mega G, Mumble even CK since inception.